What the hell is Lewy Body Dementia?
When sharing with people what my mom’s health challenge was they often didn’t know anything about LBD. I must admit, I didn’t either when I first heard the diagnoses from her neurologist at UCSF. When sitting with him to hear his feedback on all the tests he’d ran he told us, “don’t look this up, it’s a horror show.” Well, I had to look it up and indeed it sounded frightening. It’s essentially Alzheimers and Parkinson’s disease all rolled into…